slab

Meaning

1. A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
2. A paving stone; a flagstone.
3. A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
4. An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
5. The slack part of a sail.
6. (slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
7. A very large wave.
8. The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
9. Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
10. A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
11. A region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.

slab

plate

board

plank

flagstone

sheet

slice

tablet

flat stone

plaque

pane

piece

panel

block

cake

tile

bit

chunk

spindle

flat board

lithography

monotony

wood slab

pack

pile

stack

wad

fragment

part

particle

segment

wedge

memorial tablet

stone

make into sheets

outside board

alluvium

clay

mire

mortar

mud

ooze

puddle

silt

slime

slosh

sludge

abacus

slate

cut film

cut sheet

microtome section

sliced vencer

hunch

flat bloom

flat section ingot

blank

flat blank

mat

plate blank

strip breakdown

batten

lath

ribbon

slab billet

stave

counter electrode

polar plate

wafer

decking

slabstone

door

brass

flat solid

puke

scale

album

disc

disk

leaf

portion

screed

bar

hardhead

loggerhead

paving-stone

thickhead

blackboard

chalkboard

tiles

tilting

backbone

brick

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slæb/

From Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related to dialectal slappel (“portion, piece”), along with slape (“slippery”), sleip (“smooth piece of timber”), borrowed through Old Norse sleipr from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-. See also Norwegian sleip (“slippery”) and Icelandic sleipur.